Imran's Robot iExplore Learning Story - Term 3 2015

Learner: Imran                                                                   Learning Coach :DWilkes      Date:  Term 3                                                                      Learning Area: Technology

Learning Observed

Imran is amidst his very interesting iExplore learning adventure about how to make robots.  Imran has enjoyed prototyping simple robots with various materials and making changes to improve them demonstrating curiosity and resilience.  He has also fostered the curiosity of other learners.  It has been great to observe him making connections to his iExplore while he participated in some ‘discovery learning’ where they had some choices of tasks to complete to help them get familiar with the coding programme ‘Scratch’ and the extension kit ‘Makey Makey’ .  He also made connections to their prior knowledge.  Through watching tutorials, trialling his predictions and playing around with the various affordances of the equipment and programme he is self-directing his own learning.  Watching Imran’s passion and commitment is fantastic and he has pride when showing his classmates.  He is still making changes and has diverted slightly to making a powered boat which is wonderful.  He has worked collaboratively to design and create an animation using Scratch code and Makey Makey and he is transferring his new capability to his iExplore.  He has showed his curiosity, thinking and managing self skills by looking at what others had done and making connections to what he wants to achieve. I am looking forward to seeing how his learning progresses and how he can teach others his new learning.

Evidence of Learning

See a short video of Imran showing us one of his prototypes See his iExplore doc here

Next Learning Steps

finish your iExplore doc using lots of detail and reflecting on the challenges and successes write a reflective blog post about your iExplore experience record more of your prototypes to show the entire process of this iExplore look at this for ideas: http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Simple-Robot

Scratch & Makey Makey Learning Story - September 2015

Learner: Arnav, Imran, Aryan & Humaam                                   Learning Coach :DWilkes      Date:  Sept 2015- Week 8-10                                                      Learning Area: Technology

Learning Observed

For the past few weeks the learners have been engaged in an innovation station!  The learners were given the choice of 4 provocations which included: creating an Ormibot from scratch, designing an object in Tinkercad to print in the 3D printer, designing a Science experiment or designing a series of code using Scratch and Makey Makey each of which would develop their capabilities.  Arnav & Imran and Humaam & Aryan worked as pairs in a foursome in order to share a Makey makey set- such #oresome collaboration!  The boys enjoyed the first week of ‘discovery learning’ where they had some choices of tasks to complete to help them get familiar with the coding programme ‘Scratch’ and the extension kit ‘Makey Makey’ and make connections to their prior knowledge.  They watched tutorials, tried out their predictions and played around with the various affordances of the equipment and programme, self directing their learning from the presentation.  They used the Makey Makey and Scratch to create a game console and a simple musical instrument successfully.  For Week 9 and 10 the boys worked collaboratively to design and create an animation using Makey Makey and Scratch programme.  In order to piece together the code successfully there was a lot of trialling and prototyping which showed the tenacity and resilience of all boys.  They showed their curiosity, thinking and managing self skills by looking at what others had done and making connections to what they wanted to achieve.  See their learning below.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

add more code to the animation and share it on the LH1 website and/or teach another learner how to code using Scratch complete your design plan more neatly show the game to your family at home   use Makey Makey to extend the animation further

My trip to Dubai

My trip to Dubai 

At 6:am in the morning I woke up with a smile on my face because me & my family were going to Dubai. When we got things sorted we went to the airport and boarded our flight. It took a long time to board. It felt like one hour. Finally we could board. In the plane it was #Oresome. I drank 1 Fanta & 2 Sprites. When we arrived in Dubai I saw the Burj Al Khalifa the worlds tallest building. We went inside and I saw golden statues of the Burj Al Khalifa being sold. It was pretty cool. Next we went to Wild Wadi water park. I went on this ride called the drop it had a loop in it. It was crazy #Oresome. We kept on doing fun stuff but soon we had to head back to the airport. I had a #Oresome week! :)

The Talent Show

28 August

There was a talent show in OrmPS.

First there were audition then there were the finals.

The 9 finalists where Ved, Rahi, Kavisha, Grace, Aryan & Henry, KimBa Jo & Hannah, Sadeen & Selestine. In was a lot of fun! I really liked how Henry & Aryan were dancing. Aryan's & Henry dance was really funny they even included Gangnam Style.